Characters from The Art of Courtly Love

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Andreas Capellanus - Known as "chaplain of the royal court", this person believed that spirituality and the needs of the Church should always come before courtly love.

Walter - A youth of high nobility to whom "The Art of Courtly Love" was written.

The Countess of Champagne - An arbitrator over disputes concerning the practice of courtly love.

The Middle-Class Man - This person is deserving of love from others that are similar, but must prove very deserving of receiving love from those considered better.

The Middle-Class Woman - This person may turn...
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